Table 3.

Prevalence of MS in Korean children and risk of MetS among overweight or obese children

MetS, metabolic syndrome; KNHANES, Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; NCEP ATP III, National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; aOR, adjusted odds ratio; IDF, International Diabetes Federation.

¹Obesity defined those who have a body weight of 20% or more over an individual's ideal body weight using 1998 Korean growth charts.

²Using 2007 Korean growth charts, those with a BMI ≥95th percentile for age and gender were classified as obese, and those with a BMI ≥85th but <95th percentile were classified as overweight.

³Blood pressure cut-off using National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes in the US.

⁴Of risk components, the criterion for abdominal obesity applied was waist circumference above the 70th percentile instead to waist circumference ≥75th percentile and the criteria applied for glucose was a glucose concentration of more than 110 instead of ≥100 mg/dL.

⁵Using 1998 Korean growth charts, overweight or obese was defined as a BMI≥85th percentile for age and gender.